AMD Zambezi news, info, fans !

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good info, thank you. I think that sounds legit. it competes well but falls behind in games, where intel is usually the leader anyway.

now the final question becomes: can the normal overclock of a bulldozer make it faster than a normal overclock of a sandy bridge. probably 99% of 2500k can run at 4.2ghz. if 99% of bulldozer can run 5ghz or more on air, there might be a chance for bulldozer yet...

99% of 2500K can run 4.7 Ghz on air. Normal OC on water is 4.8 to 5.2 Ghz. (Those running 5.2 really pushing unsafe volts IMO)

If BD can run 5.2-5.3 I'll give it a fight in price to performance for overclockers.
I predict no more than 5.0-5.1 on air, 5.2-5.3 for those of us on water.

The whole goal here really is for AMD to beat what Gulfy can do in single thread, and based on game performance on AMD slides alone, it might be possible. After all, that was Intel's first 32nm chip, right?

IPC doesn't seem to have increased, it actually seems to have decreased slightly...
But a 5% decrease in IPC with a 20% increase in clock speed is well worth it in my book.